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I wouldn't really consider HN particularly left wing. It's fully capitalist and any thread that discusses social issues is full of libertarians. Anything that
by jgh 8y ago
I wouldn't really consider HN particularly left wing. It's fully capitalist and any thread that discusses social issues is full of libertarians. Anything that has a faint whiff of anti-capitalism is promptly removed from the front page.
Sure there are _some_ wide-spread beliefs here that happen to align with the left, but I would suggest that HN is far more libertarian than it is left-wing.
- swebs 8y agoThe opposite of libertarian is authoritarian, not left. The general trend here seems to be more free speech, less government surveillance, more socialized medicine and Universal Basic Income (and by extension, more taxes). If you had to reduce that to a single label, it would be left-libertarian.
- oicie0uD 8y agoIt is a common observation that SV leanings vary when you look at social issues vs. looking at business concerns.